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First off, I can kind of see that. Second off, you must not read much fantasy or science fiction generally, because good god, whilst I think there are legit criticisms of Jurassic Park (and not a few!), I'm not sure even if I hated it I could put in the bottom third of books I've read, let...

That doesn't really work as a defence or apologia if that's the idea, let alone a gotcha. This looks like a documentary. Just one done by someone who is totally untrained as a documentarian, has little-to-no idea how to make a documentary beyond "GET A LOT OF FOOTAGE!" (i.e. has read about...

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan an awful lot of people eatin' off the back of incredible work Obsidian did back in 2011 (esp. the work Gonzales and Sawyer did) who aren't Obsidian, which is particularly shocking given Obsidian basically didn't get paid for that (let's not go there). Jesus wept lol...

Right lol? Of all the things you can accuse Draw Steel! of being generic is not one! In fact, I think that's actually one of the factors that will limit its adoption, because it's built solely for one quite peculiar setting and has quite an unusual class selection with strong themes. Censor and...

WotC isn't a monolith, and WotC management (way above D&D as a game and the people who work on it) have historically, been extremely bad at three things: 1) Predicting the future re: D&D and what people will want. 2) Giving orders to the people who work on D&D that actually work out. 3)...

100% fact lol.

I think it was a bit too on-the-nose (not in a good Alien: Earth way either) as was the Ollie North stuff but I guess I can accept that as an explanation.

LOL I had no idea people called him that, that's amazing. I have serious reservations about this 13-person 3-group plan he has but hey, I guess we'll see.

Janeway says "Absolutely you can". Pretty sure Kirk has some and Sisko has a few too.

The only documentarians who do that IRL tend to be real amateur-hour types who can't get a work as a real documentarian because the moment they pitch to anyone, even potential cameramen etc, they immediately get pegged as some sort of weird little axe-grinder who lacks the basic personality...

I get that you don't and that's okay, but the line between that kind of humourless, ill-tempered ultra-grimdark (the Prince of Nothing kind) and what people are calling "hopepunk" (i.e. Mad Max: Fury Road) is a pretty slim one to try and balance on! I think, if I understand correctly, you're...

Absolutely this. VOY was completely fixable, and I think a lot of why people stuck with it was they were expecting characters to grow and stop being incredibly boring or annoying, but... several of them just didn't... because fundamentally the showrunners weren't very good, and some extremely...

What on earth are you talking about? You're "memeifying" hopepunk, it's not "memeified" itself. You can't accuse other people of doing what you're doing. Good lord. Also how can you complain about "memes" when you seem to singing the praises of grimdark, the most "memeified" genre in human...

No. Radiant Citadel isn't hopepunk. I put the definitions in earlier in this thread. People can call it that, but's not. It just vaguely utopian. It doesn't meet any definitions of hopepunk, which is essentially "dark or even grimdark fantasy where the good guys can win (often by working...

I can name you two - Prince of Nothing and A Land Fit For Heroes. They're both awful (and both weirdly obsessed with sexual assault far beyond other grimdark), but they aren't parodic.

See lol! 3E established the Necrons, T'au and Drukhari, so that does matter, but it also de-established a bunch of stuff, much of which has since been re-established. The biggest lore changes which weren't just introducing those three races were actually much later, with the whole Primaris...

But that's exactly the issue - if you can redo anything and turn back time continually, everything is trivial. There's essentially no difficulty in most situations, especially because you effectively see the future by reloading a game and knowing what AI likely or even certain to do (based on...

Nah. 3/4/5 were humourless rubbish. Absolute rubbish. And no, they didn't "codify" the modern setting. 2E did. I've had this argument at great length with assorted 40K people, and it always ends the same way, the person claiming 2E didn't do that ends up admitting they weren't very familiar...

I mean, I guarantee a bunch of "grimdark" stuff you like is technically equally classifiable as hopepunk. Not all of, it but like, probably a significant double-digit fraction, so I'm not sure I entirely buy "anathema".

I get it. It happened to me already with 40K, all the way back in 1998! I started playing GW games in about 1988, Adeptus Titanicus, Rogue Trader (1E 40K), etc. Went on to Epic Scale and Space Marine (2E 40K). That was all great and most of the really good baseline lore for 40K was created...